to be a stay at home wife. This story consists of many characters Louise Mallard‚ Josephine‚ Richard and Brently. Louise Mallard is one of the main characters. She is Brently wife and suffers from heard problems. Josephine is Louise’s sister‚ and is the one who has to break news to her sister. Richard is Mr. Mallard’s friend and is the one that goes to the news office to confirm the death of her husband. Brently is Louise husband who is on the list of deaths and is assumed dead. Plot is
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The Fat Girl Her name was Louise. Once when she was sixteen a boy kissed her at a barbacue; he was drunk and he jammed his tongue into her mouth and ran his hands up and down her hips. Her father kissed her often. He was thin and kind and she could see in his eyes when he looked at her the lights of love and pity. It started when Louise was nine. You must start watching what you eat‚ her mother would say. I can see you have my metabolism. Louise also had her mother’s pale blond hair
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dancing and socializing‚ Mathilde realizes with horror that she has lost the borrowed necklace. Mathilde’s internal conflict‚ between fantasy and reality‚ leads her into a life of abject poverty. Kate Chopin’s "Story of an Hour" is the story of Louise Mallard‚ a weak‚ repressed housewife who is liberated in learning of her husband’s death in a train accident. The conflict in Chopin’s story is an
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Louise Mallard and the
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Marriage Sucks In “The Story of an Hour”‚ Kate Chopin utilizes irony to portray marriage as a negative and suffocating experience. In the story Louise Mallard is notified that her husband Brently has been killed in a railroad accident. Chopin uses situational irony to show how Louise is not distressed‚ but pleased‚ to hear of her husband’s death. Her realization that she will no longer be bound to another person excites her as seen through Chopin’s utilization of verbal irony. Chopin utilizes situational
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the characters in the novel. There is conflict between the couples who are encountered by the reader which hints at love between a white man (Sidney Bonbon) and black woman (Pauline Guerin)‚ as well as a black man (Marcus Payne) with a white woman (Louise Bonbon). Although the love between Sidney Bonbon‚ the overseer of the plantation‚ and Pauline Guerin‚ who happens to be Bonbons mistress‚ is not clear in the beginning of the novel‚ it becomes more obvious as Gaines strike up a love interest in the
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tells you exactly what is happening but still leaves enough room for your imagination to fill in the blanks. For example‚ when Chopin describes Louise ’s room with "the open window‚ a comfortable‚ roomy armchair" (page 378)‚ and then goes on to describe what Louise sees outside‚ she tells us that our protagonist isn ’t living a bad life monetarily. Louise has a nice comfortable chair in her bedroom where she has a nice view of a square with trees and people. The way Chopin describes the weather
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Pretty Girl Austin Grader Year 11 2A/B English “Come on Son‚ we’re going to Grandma’s now.” Called the voice of my mother from the bottom of the stairs. “Okay I’m just putting my shoe on‚” I replied. I loved going to my Great Grandma’s home‚ especially in the winter because she would always wrap me in a blanket‚ sit me on her lap and tell me stories about when she was younger. She had a very large and lovely home‚ the house was filled with old photographs‚ and paintings that my Great Grandma
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Chopin’s “The story of an hour” perceives this seemingly normal middle-class family with an extensive amount of colorful irony. Louise Mallard is a housewife who tries to lead the most standard life possible with her all-powerful husband.The many years of marriage has brought the feeling of emptiness and vacancy into the soul of Louise Mallard. Through her tribulations of marriage‚ releasing herself and setting both her body and mind free‚ and the deaths throughout the story
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Brently and Louise Mallard are husband and wife‚ in the late 19th century where some women were treated as housewives. The men were always superior to women and women were considered physically weaker nor allowed to socialize as freely as men. In The Story of an Hour‚ Louise Mallard symbolizes the open window in the concept of a double perception because one can argue that‚ Louise and the window can be viewed from two different perspectives within the thought
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